Ahmedabad: To pacify agitating farmers in Mahuva against its cement plant, the Nirma Limited on Wednesday proposed before the Gujarat High Court that the company is ready to release 46 hectares of land for deepening catchment area of the reservoir.

Battling a political crisis in Goa, the Congress has blamed illegal mining and business interests of MLAs for the instability and repeated attempts to topple the State Government. In a confidential internal report prepared for Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the State unit has sought the Centre

SHILLONG/JOWAI: Bowing down to the pressure of FKJGP, the cement companies in Jaintia Hills have decided publicize vacant posts in different cement plants through the local media and also in the polytechnics, colleges and ITIs.

The decision to advertise the various posts in the cement plants was taken at a meeting between officials of the cement companies and the FKJGP at Jowai on Monday.

SC Had Stopped Reddy Bros Mining Ops In Obulapuram After Their Plea

Bellary: Three mine owners, on whose plea the Supreme Court recently stayed mining operations of a company owned by the Reddy brothers in Andhra Pradesh, were attacked by an eight-member gang in Bellary on Monday, police said.

French cement giant Lafarge may have to wait a while to resume mining, with the Supreme Court asking it to seek fresh environmental and forests clearance from the Centre for mining in the eco-fragile East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya.

Pointing out that the current export duty was grossly inadequate to contain rising export of iron ore from the country, steel minister Virbhadra Singh has sought the Prime Minister

Ishita Ayan Dutt / Petarwar (jharkhand) March 29, 2010, 0:16 IST

90% of villagers at new site are willing to swap property for jobs.

If you thought the willing land losers

New Delhi:For the second time in three months, the Supreme Court on Monday halted the multi-crore iron ore mining activity on Andhra Pradesh-Karnataka border by politically powerful Reddy brothers accused of extracting iron ore by digging beyond their lease boundaries into Bellary reserve forest.

The Supreme Court today suspended all three mining leases of the Reddy brothers

Asks Survey of India To Assess Whether Reddys Have Encroached Upon Forest Land